A team from Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has worked with a major affordable housing provider on a second scheme in London as the need for high-quality privately rented homes in the capital shows no sign of abating. The latest deal involved Network Homes developing and disposing of an...
A flagship programme to provide long-term skills and employability support to schools with high levels of disadvantage in Bristol has been launched by international law firm Osborne Clarke. The Bridge project is being run by Osborne Clarke in partnership with Visionpath, an organisation that aims to radically improve the...
Royds Withy King, the regional law firm with an office in Bristol, is in advanced merger talks with a smaller London practice in a move that would lift its annual revenue to more than £50m. Bath-headquartered Royds Withy King, which also has offices in Swindon, Oxford and London, confirmed the...
Bristol law firm Barcan+Kirby has strengthened its team with the appointment of four trainee solicitors. Amy Reeves, Alicia Perry-Watts, Hevy Khalil and Stephen Biggs have now started their training contracts with the firm. Alicia and Hevy, who started their careers as paralegals with Barcan+Kirby, have taken their first seats...
International law firm Kennedys has strengthened its presence in Bristol with the appointment of a new partner to the office it opened in the city in 2019. Laura Hurst, pictured, a senior associate in the firm’s London professional liability division, has been promoted to partner as part of a...
Regional law firm Thrings, which has an office in Bristol, has continued to develop its staff by appointing two new partners, three senior associates and seven associates in its annual promotions round. The new partners are Emily Prout, a dispute resolution specialist and head of the firm’s contentious probate...
The corporate team at national law firm Foot Anstey has advised on two major deals for rapidly expanding managed service provider Air IT. The acquisitions of MFG UK and Infinity IT Solutions are the latest in a string of takeovers by Nottingham-based Air IT, which provides a portfolio of...
An innovative technology platform to provide legal services to fast-growth companies in the tech sector throughout their life-cycle has been started by Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon. Aimed at start-ups, scale-ups, founders and investors, BScale will offer a depth of knowledge to enable them to work through mission-critical funding rounds, the inevitable...
Siobhan Fitzgerald, a partner in Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT’s national employment team, has been appointed a fee-paid judge of the Employment Tribunal by the Lord Chancellor. Siobhan, pictured, who will continue in her current role as a partner at TLT, will work as a judge in the Employment Tribunal’s...
Regional law firm BLB Solicitors, which has offices in and around Bristol, has appointed Caroline Entwistle as its new head of commercial property. The role became vacant earlier this year when the firm’s previous head of commercial property Richard Bowater was promoted to joint managing partner. Caroline, pictured, joined...
More than £1m has been pledged by businesses and organisations across the West of England from their unused apprenticeship levy funds to help people in the region develop new skills. The funds have gone to the Share to Support scheme, which was launched earlier this year to create vital...
A cross-firm team of lawyers from the Bristol office of international legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised private equity investment firm Foresight on its third grid-scale acquisition of the past seven months. The 50MW Blackpark energy storage project in Scotland is the most recent in a string of acquisitions...
Bristol’s Property Inclusion Charter, the first of its kind in the UK, has welcomed the businesses behind an ultra-sustainable later living community in the city – taking its membership to more than 50. FORE Partnership, Amicala and First Base have signed up to the charter to deliver on its...
